There’s a new place to go for Philadelphia theater coverage: Phindie! Phindie (www.phindie.com) is a website that features reviews, articles, reflections, and the like on theater arts and performing arts more generally. At the helm of Phindie is Christopher Munden who has been covering theater for a number of outlets over the past few years–and… Read more »
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Saturday Afternoon Play: Back to Back Theatre’s Performance Workshop
The chairs formed a circle in the Philadelphia Live Arts Studio on Saturday afternoon, and when I walked in over a dozen people were introducing themselves: “I’m an independent theater artist.” “Social media junkie.” “I just tried to get some gas at a gas station and it took all my credit information and gave me… Read more »
Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals
“Dualism has proved so popular because it feels right,” says “Mason Rosenthal,” played by Mason Rosenthal in Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals, a collaboration between Mason and Megan Mazarick that continues its run with two shows tonight and two more tomorrow, at 7:00 and 10:00 pm. Talking with Megan and Mason about… Read more »
All About Bullying . . . From Philly to Australia
“Billy was the bully on our school bus, always waiting to bother any one of us,” says Philadelphia’s WMGK Debbi Calton. Her voice is gentle, but emphatic. “When walking down the aisle to your bus seat he’d jump ahead and step on your feet…while on his face there’d be smirking, snickering, snide.” Debbi’s spoken piece… Read more »
A public service announcement from PDDC
Mike Gerkovich makes zines and they are like roadside lookout areas: created in collaboration with members of the cultural arts program at the Philadelphia Developmental Disabilities Corporation (PDDC), each page makes you pull over, take a look, and wonder how each frame of vision marries the other to form one magnificent gorge you never knew… Read more »
This House Is Made of Waste Products Only: Thinking about Kyohei Sakaguchi
Julius Ferraro is a freelance writer in Philadelphia, a former Festival Guide intern, and regular blog contributor. One of the 2012 Live Arts Festival highlights is Toshiki Okada and Pig Iron Theatreʼs Zero Cost House. The show is about, among other things, Kyohei Sakaguchi. Though Sakaguchi is relatively unheard-of in the United States, his Zero… Read more »
Illadelph or Portlandia?
Ellen Freeman is a freelance writer and former Festival Blog intern who is based in Oregon. Remember the segment Adam Carolla used to do on the radio show Loveline called “Germany or Florida?” Oh, you had better things to do at 11:00 pm on weekdays than listen to ecstasy-addled sexually-active teens discuss their problems with… Read more »
Found Theater’s Electric Jungle
If the plaudits from Philadelphia Weekly, Metro, and their amazing feature on the Knight Arts blog didn’t already compel you to check out Found Theater’s Electric Jungle, perhaps their trailer will. Man, it’s only noon on a Monday, and I am already ready to smoke some balloon with an alligator. Electric Jungle runs tonight at… Read more »
Sacred Spaces and the Arts: A Chat with Rich Kirk from the Calvary Center
Prarthana Jayaram is a Philly-based writer and regular Festival Blog contributor. She talked to Rich Kirk, the chairman of the board for the Cavalry United Methodist Church. The West Philly church, located at 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue, hosts the Cavalry Center for Culture and Community, which in turn hosts Curio Theatre Company and Crossroads… Read more »
The Beat on Brat
“I lost the best actress award to Lynn Redgrave, which is awesome!” says Madi Distefano, of her 2004 Barrymore Award nomination for Popsicle’s Departure, 1989. That show was also nominated for outstanding new play at that year’s Barrymores, but got even greater plaudits when it moved to the Edinburgh Fringe: best solo show. Madi, the… Read more »
We Got It All: Family Friendly Fringe
“It’s not a converted space and it’s not a ghostly space, and yet there are benevolent ghosts present there; children have been playing there for over a hundred years. It’s full of wood and old-fashioned plain toys—nothing with bells and whistles.” When Seth Bauer, writer of this year’s Fringe work Seek and Hide, talks about… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Jesus Christ?
The Irish Catholic upbringing in me shudders, but here it is: writing in from sketch comedy troupe The Waitstaff’s The Real Housewives of South Philly Play Match Game! is Jesus H. Christ, apparently sacrificing (I’m sorry.) his time to perform in this year’s Fringe, and to Vital Stat us. Thanks Jesus for this, and for…well,… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Cecily and Gwendolyn
Meet Kelly Jennings and Karen Getz, veteran funny women and members of ComedySportz Philadelphia. For this year’s Fringe the two are dropping their pants (More nudity, score!) and hiking up their Victorian petticoats (Oh wait, no.) as Cecily and Gwendolyn, British women from the time of chamber pots and pots of tea, and they’re here… Read more »
No Snooze in This News
Spooky spooktacular! Not really. But after the jump, coverage of Fringe in cemeteries, my friend Cherri interviews Jumatatu Poe for KYW, some top picks from our media posse, and more. Rounding up the roundups again, here we go:
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Reuben Wade
Paint it, my friend, PAINT THE AMERICAN EAGLE! Reuben Wade talks Charles Darwin Dickens’ trip to America, and working it for the 2012 Philly Fringe, after the jump. Oh, did I mention that the show is free? Word is bond.
